Hunting and Progress

Time seemed to pass quickly and I'd assume more than a month passed already since I've arrived in this world. During the past month or so I've gotten a lot stronger and am more in tune with my powers.

I haven't had a breakthrough or anything and I also had no luck in any change of chakra nature. I speculate that I don't have any affinity with any of the 5 elements. I could still train in them but I would have to spend more time on them that could be better used elsewhere.

{A/N: I REALISE SOME GUYS DON'T LIKE THE FACT THAT HE IS AN ŌTSUTSUKI WITH NO AFFINITIES TOWARDS THE 5 ELEMENTS, HOWEVER I WROTE IT SO ON PURPOSE FOR LATER PARTS OF THE STORY}

I know that I definitely have a yang affinity and probably yin as well, however I can't tell. That fleeting feeling during my meditation has gotten stronger and more tangible. I have some guesses as to what it could be, but I sadly can't say for sure.

I've made some real progress with my strength though, while I am still small and slim, I definitely pack a punch, and after some thinking I recreated Tsunades technique of using a small burst of chakra when I punch or kick something.

How truly genius this technique is.

It's so simple yet so deadly. It takes immense chakra control, luckily I didn't have a problem with that at all and it came rather easily.

Also, applying chakra to body parts during training not only improved my control quite a bit but also made me use most of my reserves and I found that they naturally grow a bit bigger every time I almost completely empty them out, so that's what I've been doing multiple times a day, since my regeneration is truly fast.

The forest is teeming with wildlife and once I felt strong enough I actually started hunting regularly.

*FLASHBACK*

Since I have good night vision I decided to hunt when it's dark, I was flying above the tree line keeping my senses glued to the ground. It became easy to sense my surroundings passively, and I noticed that I don't just sense chakra but truly sense everything around me. Definitely grateful for that since not every animal has chakra and some have such a small amount I'd be difficult to sense it at all.

After flying for around 15 minutes I felt something bigger moving on the ground. I slowly hovered downwards, careful to not brush against any leaves and stalked my prey for a minute or so. It was a large boar and it also had small but noticeable amounts of chakra in its body.

Since this was my first real hunt I didn't want to take any chances and just let myself fall, in order to perform a drop kick straight to the head.

As my heel neared the head of the boar, I took some chakra and made it burst on impact with the boars head.

*BOOM* *SQUELCH*

The head simply exploded outwards painting the ground, and myself, red with blood and brain matter. The rest of the body lifelessly slumped over and I smiled. This was my first real kill and it felt awesome.

I was grinning from ear to ear, my power astonishing myself. One kick is all it took to make a body part of an animal, which is a lot stronger than a normal human, explode.

I sat next to the corpse and let my mist flow freely enveloping the carcass of the boar. Suddenly I had a feeling of me being able to 'choose' what I wanted to devour. I could devour the life energy, the small bits of chakra or the bloodline of the boar.

Thinking of absorbing the bloodline of this boar made me feel disgusted. As if I would tarnish my impeccable bloodline with such a nasty thing. The chakra also didn't feel attractive at all so I simply absorbed the life force back into my body leaving nothing behind but brainy bits and blood.

I flew back up and headed to my favourite tree to relax and decided to hunt more the coming days.

*FLASHBACK END*

After that hunt I went hunting regularly testing my strength without enhancing it with chakra as well as keeping up with my training.

I haven't spotted any predators that could pose a real challenge, but I was also staying in my little territory for the most part. I didn't want to accidentally face something I wasn't prepared for, like a ninja for example.

I don't know my chances of winning against them. I could definitely kill some Genins, even though I don't have any real idea what I am doing during combat, and the only thing I've got going for me is strength and the ability to fly away, if the battle proved to be too much of a challenge. But Genins are almost always on missions with at least a Chunin or Jonin and I don't want to expose myself too early and get on the radar of any of the hidden villages.

So with that in mind I decided to stay for a while longer, most importantly growing my chakra reserves and also gaining more base strength. I didn't mind the monotonous nature of the life I was living right now. Sure it was slightly boring but the feeling of growing stronger day after day is quite addicting.

And with that another few weeks passed until I decided it was time for a change of scenery and some action.